Wen Stephenson is an editor and writer based in Boston. From 1996 to 2001 he was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly’s online journal, Atlantic Unbound (theatlantic.com/unbound). His essays and reviews have appeared in The American Prospect, The Atlantic, AGNI, The Washington Monthly, and elsewhere. He is now managing editor of the Web edition of PBS’s Frontline (pbs.org/frontline) and lives in Wayland, Mass., with his wife and their three-year-old son.